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Hi Len, --- "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <len.bullard@i...> wrote: > Your experiences are much the same as mine. > As Tim Bray says, View Source is a primary reason > for the spread of HTML, Javascript and so forth. > > However, back on topic: as pointed out by others, > HTML > might be called semi-structured, but I think the > concept of structure is misleading because markup > is structured by definition. OTOH, even highly > structured XML can be quite meaningless which is > why for XML and HTML work wonderfully well for the > humans and vary a lot for computers. Best practices > cover some but not all of the gaps. In my opinion, > naming is a harder and more important practice to > master than structuring. In many cases, when markup > fails semantically, naming is at fault. Naming is > hard. > Best practices for naming are even harder to come > by. Since HTML is a presentational vocabulary, it is flat namespaced, where XML is hierarchically namespaced. Would this mean HTML will be un-structured as reasoned by me earlier? And XML will be structured. But I agree with you on the point that HTML can be treated as semi-structured. Is this topic worth discussing? HTML is so popular and beautifully nice, that we should just use it :) Probably we should discuss more about XML on xml-dev.. Regards, Mukul > len __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
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